Becoming professionally story-curious develops those all-important critical-listening skills. Regardless of your professional discipline. Also, those critical-listening skills are important to fine-tuning your overall critical-thinking skills. So, recall what happens when another professional tells a story. Do you lean in, and become curious about what’s next? Or, do you tune out and turn off? Either because… [Continue Reading]
Are You Professionally Story-Curious or just plain Disconnected?
Retain Clients Who crave the Storytelling Experiences You Create
When you create storytelling experiences your clients crave, your professional relationships move beyond transacting business. Instead, your relationships become transformational for you both. How do you get from where you are now, with your storytelling experiences, to where you need to go? Build your business based on retaining clients who are fully co-invested in the… [Continue Reading]
Develop Storytelling Confidence to avoid Shapeshifting Stories
Do you have storytelling confidence? You know, telling stories consistently, time after time. And, telling the stories in which you are professionally invested. When you take those actions, you move away from describing someone else’s stories, as a third-party narrative. Think about it. Which type of stories do you currently tell to potential clients and… [Continue Reading]
Do you tell Encore-Worthy Professional Stories or So-So Stories?
Telling encore-worthy professional stories extends the reach of stories beyond your current meeting or appointment. Strategic partners and clients cannot wait until the next time they see you: to find out what happens next. Because your stories make a difference to their professional success, and the success of their own partners and clients. Professional storytelling… [Continue Reading]
3 Ways to develop Business-Worthy Storytelling Skills
Business-worthy storytelling skills are must-have communication skills. Especially for individuals targeting a leadership trajectory, regardless of their current professional disciplines. First, business-worthy storytelling skills require understanding more than one professional language. If you only are comfortable speaking your discipline’s specific professional language among peers, the amazing stories you have to share are lost. Lost on… [Continue Reading]
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